Feed regulator



C. A. SHULTZ.

FEED REGULATOR.

APPLICATION FILED mm. 1921.

1,403,649. Patented Jan. 17, 1922.

INVENTOR. 65 46455 4. 5/401 72.

A TTORNEY5.

UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. SI-IULTZ, 0F IQONTICELLO, INDIANA, ASSIGNOB T0 UNITED CEREAL 8a GRAIN SEPARATOR CO. OF INDIANA, A GOR-ZORATION.

FEED REGULATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 17, 1922.

Original application filed April 16, 1920, Serial No. 374,355. Divided and this applicationifiled April 2,

To (122 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gimmes A. SHULTZ, a citizen of the United States. and a resident of lilonticello, county of iVhite and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Feed Regulator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, cleanhnd exact description thereof, referones being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

This invention relates to hoppers and the like and is a division of a co-pendingapplication Serial No. 374,355, filed April 16, 1920, upon a cereal cleaner and separator, and the chief object of this invention is to provide a hopper construction wherein the means controlling the discharge of material from the hopper agitates the same during the discharge therefrom.

The chief feature of the invention consists in associating with a hopper a pivoted door and means for reciprocating said door.

Another feature of the invention consists in associating means with said door whereby said means serves to agitate the material discharged from the hopper.

Another feature of the invention consists in adjusting the reciprocation of the door member.

The full nature of this invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a cereal cleaning, separating and grading machine including a hopper to which the invention has been applied. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view showing the interior of the hopper and the hopper door member embodying the invention. 'Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the hopper door and supporting means taken on the line 38 of Fig. 2 and in the direction of the arrows.

In the drawings 10 indicates a plurality of upright standards suitably supported by being provided with base members 11 secured in spaced relation by the upper and lower transverse horizontal frame members 12 and 18 respectively. Intermediate said transverse spacing members is an additional transverse member 14. The side frames.

formed by the transverse members and the standards support in spaced relation the Serial No. 457,982.

hopper, the cleaning compartment and the grading compartment of the cereal machine hereinbefore mentioned.

The hopper compartment is comprised of a pair of side plates 18 suitably secured to the standards 10. The ends of said hopper and the base or bottom are composed of two inwardly and downwardly extending plates or sides 19 and 20, see Fig. 2. The plate 20 terminates short ofthe plate 19 and provides an aperture 21 therebetween through which the material, such as grain and the like, pass from the hopper into the receptacle 22 positioned therebeneath. Interposed in said aperture, and suitably secured to the plate 20, by means of the hinges 23,

is a closure plate member 24. v e

The plate 24' is providedwith suitable agitating means which, in the present instance,

comprises a bracket 25 suitably secured to the cleaning compartment casing 22 so as to transmit movement from said compartment tothe closuremember 24. .Suitably secur 'ed upon the inner side of the closure member 24, and extending into the aperture 21 between the sides 19 and 20, is an agitating rod 26. The rod 26 extends substantially transversely of the hopper and parallel to said closure member and in spaced relation therewith by the ends 26" being bent angularly and parallel to said rod, the parallel portions being secured to the closure member 24.

Secured to the outer side of the closure member 24 is a pivoted support or hook 27 by which a connecting rod 28 is pivotally secured to said closure member. In the present instance the rod 28' is shown secured to the pivotal support by means of the cotter pin 27 The rod 28 extends through the bracket plate 25 and carries upon its outer end a wing-nut 29 for adjustably securing the same thereto. Between the support 27 and the bracket plate 25 is positioned a tension spring 30 which spring, in the present instance, is concentric with and surrounds the rod 28 to maintain the closure plate in the closed position as soon as released from the open position by the movement of the plate 25.

The compartment 22 in the drawings is the side wall 18 at 32 and pivoted to the upon the frame.

the sprocket chain 48. The chain 4L8 in turn the plate 25.

is driven by means of thesprocket wheel 40 to which is secured the crank arm 45 and the actuating handle 46.

It will be understood that when the handle -16 is turned to rotate the wheel 40 the movement thereof reciprocating motion through the pitman 52 lever and compartment 22 to The bracket plate 25, therefore, is provided with a reciprocating motion which in turn is transmitted, by means of the connecting rod 28 and tension means 30, to the closure member or door 24 and simultaneously therewith to the actuating rod 26.

The invention claimed is:

1. A hopper construction including a plurality of Walls adjacent each other adapted to form a discharge aperture, a closure member for said aperture hingedly supported adjacent the aperture, means for intermit tently swinging said closure member, and an is. transmitted as a agitating bar supported in spaced relation upon the inner face of said closure member and movable into said aperture.

2. A hopper construction including a'plurality of walls adjacent each other adapted to form a discharge aperture, a closure member for said aperture hingedly supported adj acent the aperture, means for intermittently swinging said closure member, and an from, a member for reciprocating said rod to swlng said closure plate on its 'p1votalsupport, spring means concentric with said rod and posltioned between sald reciprocating member and said plate, adjustable means on said rod :torlimiting the movement of said plate in one direction by said spring and in the opposite direction by said reciprocating member, and an agitating bar supported upon the inner face of said closure plate and movable into said aperture.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed by signature.

' CHARLES A. SHULTZ. 

